Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 61

I am king, it is true; but I begin to be tired of that, and I think I should like to be emperor.’

Who acts: I, thing · What happens: be, begin, think, like · To what, where: king, emperor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 king	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 king	cop
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 true	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 true	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 true	cop
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	parataxis
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 begin	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 begin	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 begin	nsubj
11	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 true	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	14 tired	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 tired	cop
14	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 begin	advcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 tired	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 think	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 think	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 think	nsubj
20	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 begin	parataxis
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 like	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 like	aux
23	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 think	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	26 emperor	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 emperor	cop
26	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 like	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 king	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 king	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	king		tree rules
2	is	present	thing		true property	tree rules
3	begin	present	I			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is	to-infinitive	I not said here		of that; tired property	tree rules
5	think speech: other	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	emperor		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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